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The 1993 book "The Guru Papers" by Joe Kramer and Diana Alstad, that is also linked to on ex-premie was recently reviewed by Robert Priddy, a prominent ex-follower of SSB. The Guru papers make very valid points about the guru-disciple relationship. They advocate a negative perspective on this relationship and (often convincingly) dismiss more positive alternative perspectives. The book also make sweeping negative generalizations, though without a doubt true sometimes, that they could have better toned down a bit. It seems as if the authors have studied Rawat before writing the book, because some paragraphs are 100% the young Rawat (e.g. they mention ulcer problems), though they do not mention his name. This brings me to the biggest drawback of the book. It does not mention its sources and it gives only very few examples. Another drawback is that this essay-like book is somewhat verbose: sometimes you get the point already from reading a few paragraphs of some chapters. Andries (amended) http://home.chello.no/~reirob/SaiBaba/gurutrap2.htm (Review by Robert Priddy) Modified by Andries at Sat, Jan 07, 2006, 06:31:02 |
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